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local body . Mr . Bright , however , is right in saying that it is impossible to devise a plan which shall be perfect , or shall win the assent of everybody . An order issued by the Poof-alttW Odikimssioners towards the end of August last , hhft been the object of a growing resistance , in which the London Unions have taken part , and Which Manchester has just joined . The object tif the order
is , to forbid out-door relief for able-bodied persons who are earning money , and to oblige the unions to provide relief in the shape of work . The order is likely to prove a brutum fulmen , vehemently exciting many unions against the idea of reproductive employment , thus abruptly thrust upon them without the slightest preparation , or the slightest help towards overcoming the practical difficulties that will be felt in some places .
The fatal duel at Egham has been followed by an unpleasant sequel of ungenerous conduct . "While the fact generally understood is , that Cournet forced on the duel , out of an overstrained punctilio , the reports made it appear that political friends of his antagonist , Barthelemy , had forced it upon Cournet . A rag in one of
Baxthelemy ' s pistols rendered it impossible for that weapon to go off ; the report spoke of it as Cournet's pistol , and hinted that the rag had been put there by Barthelemy ' s second . Bad impressions have probably contributed to the decision of the local magistrates against receiving bail ; but as the case of the prisoners is in good legal keeping , we have no fear that justice will fail on the trial .
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JOHN BRIGHrS SOLUTION" OF THE IRISH CHURCH " DIFFICULTY . " Unable to attend the " Religious Equality conference held in Dublin on Thursday , Mr . Bright has written a long letter to Dr . Gray , one of the secretaries of the movement , expounding his views in full , and thus publishing a complete plan for the settlement of the Irish Church . He sets out upon the understanding that the " Eqimlity" party " demand nothing more nor less than a perfect * equality' before the law for the religious sects that exist in Ireland ; " which are explained to be " the Protestant Episcopalian , the Presbyterian , and the Roman Catholic Churches . " He then lays down the broad ground on which to base his solution that the equality sought " must start from this point—that henceforth there must be no church in Ireland in connexion with the State . " He propounds two plans : — " The most simple plan would bo to absorb the revenues of the- Established Church as the- livings become vacant , and to apply them in some channel not ecclesiastical , in ¦ which the- whole population of Ireland could participate . The objections to this plan are , that it would be hard upon the Protestant Episcopalians , after having pampered them . so long- with a munificent support , to throw them all at oiico on their resources ; and that to withdraw the Reg hint JJonmn from the Presbyterians of the north , when they have no other provision made for their religious wants , would 1 ) 0 to create a just discontent among them . " Ho disposes of this plan , and then proceeds to detail the other , which lie adopts : —
" There is , however , another mode of settlement which , though open to some objection , is probably more likely to obtain a general concurrence of opinion in its favour in . Ireland , and to which , I think , a groat amount of consent might be obtained in England and Scotland . Your present , ecclesiastical arrangements are briefly these : —The 'Protestant Episcopal Church has r >() O , < MK > l . per annum entrusted to it , or a principal sum , at twenty years' purchase , of ton 'millions sterling . The Presbyterian Church or Churches have LO , ()( Mtf . per annum , or , estimated at the uiune rate , a principal sum of eight hundred thousand pounds . The Roman Catholic Church Imh 'Mi , ( HH ) t . per unnniii , or a principal sum of fun : hundred and twenty thousand pounds . I will say nothing about the exact proportions of population belonging to each Church , for 1 do not wi . sh to give opportunity for disputo about figures . true
It , in sufficient to say , what , everybody knows to be , thai , the Irish population is Catholic , and that the l'rotostunts , whether of the Kpiscopalian or of the Presbytoriim Church , <> r of both united , are a Hiimll minority of this Irish people . 1 will admit the temporary hardship of al . oneo withdrawing from tho Protestant wets all tho repourcott which the State bus hitherto provided for thorn ; but , at t he same time ., no one can ( U'liy , and I cannot forget , tho hardship to which tho Catholics have boon subjected , inasmuch as that they , tho poorest portion of tho people , and by many timen the most numerous , Inivn been shut out from almost all partieipatioti in the public tutnlx applied to occlosiafltical purposes in Ireland , la it not poHuiblo to make an arrangement by which tho menaced hardului ) to tho Protestants may bo avoided , and that bo long . uuluml by tho Catholioa , in part , at loaflt , r < tdron » odP And ci » thiN !>• don * without doptutinjr few th # principle
' that henceforth thetti jnusif Be lio dhurch in Ireland in . connexion with the Stitte ?' " Let an act be pitted to establish a * Church Property-Commission' for Imftnd , and . let this commission hold in trust , for certain tiilrposes , all the tithes and other property now enjoyfcd by the Established Church ; let it , in fftdfc , become possessed of the ten m illions sterling-, theifltJOme frojn which now- forms tile revenues of that Church , as * the liViittgs and benefices feetkmie vacant . It would be desirable to offer facilities to the landed proprietors to purchase the tititea at an easy rate , in order that funds might he in hand to carry out the btlier arrangements of the scheme . 1 hare estimated the total value at ten millions ; it might not reach that sum if the tithes were sold at a low rate ;
but whether it were ten millions , or only eight millions , would not affect the practicability or the justice of this proposition . Let this commission be empowered and directed to appropriate certain portions of this fund as a free gift to each of the three Churches in Ireland—to the Protestant Episcopalian , the Presbyterian , and the Eomancatholic Church . Whatever is thus given must be a free gift , and become as much the private property of the respective sects or Churches , as is the property of the Free Church in Scotland , or that of the Wesleyan Methodists in England . It must no longer be a trust from the State , liable to interference or recall by the State , or the ' equality * and independence of the Irish sects will not be secured .
" There comes now the question of the amounts to be thus given . From some inquiries I have made , I have arrived at the conclusion that if , in each parish in Ireland , there was a house and a small piece of land , say from ten to twenty acres , in the possession of the Catholic Church , that would be all the provision that would be required , or wished for , as the general support of its ministers -would be derived , as at present , from the voluntary contributions of their flocks . There are in round numbers about 1000 parishes in Ireland . In many of them there is now a piwision up to the standard above stated in the possession but will that in all of
of the Catholic Church , I assume them , such provision would have to be made . One thousand pounds for each parish , taking one parish with another , would simply make up any deficiency , and this amount throughout the parishes of Ireland would require the sum of one million sterling- to be appropriated from the general fund ; and this should be made over absolutely and for ever to the C atholics of Ireland , in such hands and in such manner as the funds of their Church raised by voluntary efforts are usually secured . Under an arrangement of this kind , of course the special grant to the College of Maynooth would be withdrawn .
" The Presbyterians under the operation of this act would lose their annual grant of 40 , 000 Z . per annum j but in place of it , assuming that they have an organization and a system of Government which would enable them to hold and administer funds for the use of their Church , a portion of the general fund should be set apart for them , equal to the production of a revenue of like amount with that they now receive by grant from Parliament . This should also be given to them absolutely and for eyor , and they should become henceforth , a voluntary and independent Church .
" The Protestant Episcopalians should be treated aa liberally as the Presbyterians , with whom , it is estimated , they are about on a par in point of numbers . Assuming that they could and would form themselves into a Free Episcopal Church , the commission would be empowered to grant them a sum equal to that granted to the Presbyterians , and which would be about the same in amount as that granted to tho Catholics . And further , so long as they undertook to keep the churches in repair they might be permitted to retain possession of them at a nominal rent , for their own use only ; and that when or where they had no congregation sufficient to maintain the church , then the buildings should be at tho disposal of the commission to let or sell as might bo thought best . In the caso of tho Protestant Episcopalians , as with tho Presbyterians and the Catholics , whatever sum is given to them must be
given absolutely and for ever , that henceforth they may rely on their own resources and become a voluntary and independent Church . The Stale would thus bavo distributed about three millions of the original fund , and would have relinquished all claims upon it for ever ; and it would be tho duty of the commission to take care that those grants were applied , in the ( irst instance , for the purposes and in the manner intended by tho act . The remaining five or seven millions , as the caso might bo , might , and in my opinion ought , to bo reserved for purposes strictly Irish , and directed to tho educational and moral improvement of the people without respect to class or creed . This fund would extend and perfect tho educational institutions of tho country ; it would establish and endow free libraries in all the chief towns of . Ireland , and would dispense * blessings in many channels for the free and equal enjoyment of the whole population . "
Such is tho solution of Uuh enormous evil ofrerod by the member for Manchester . Ho foresees object-ions ; but ho justly says thai , the " evil is desperate ; " and thu ( , whoever proposes to " wait until the remedy is pleasant , to everybody , limy and will wait for ever . "
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MOKE " liAKT CHINS" OF PROTECTION . Protection linn made a gallant rally in )> rond Lincolnshire—the county of the eminent , Christopher and tho surprising Sibthorjt . Mr . Packo , M , P . who has " seven county voton , " in virtue of his property , nnd who defends the one as he grieves at , tho supposed falling rontH of the other , miriod the old flng , and spoke somewhat , in tho old fashioned nt , niin of 1 8-1 , 0 . Ho presided over tho banquet of tho " Loughborough Agricultural Association , " in tho great room nt tho " Hull ' s Heiul "; and ho wuh Hup ] K > rl , cd by Mr . Knrnham , a " silent member , " and tho Marquis of ( irtuiby , who ha * como out nt last
Mr . ttu-ke tofcLfcU fcldience that he had long Wt , accustor&ed to insist from that chair upon Protection + the agricultural ifiterdsts , to uphold which the sooi ? was founded . ^ " It was perfe # jr true that the majorit y of thosa » i , n had been returned at the fete elections were > likfely to r diate that now ; but Still , as long as the tongue that w now speaking was Able to address them—so long as hen served the senses which he possessed when they did w ' the honour to choose him as one of their representatives- ! so long mttafc he adhere to the principles in which he berar , his career . ( Loud cheera . ) Although there might b glimpses of times that might not seem to be quite so bad
as they had had , they must not forget the great sacrifice of capital which the owners and occupiers of land had en dured , in order to make the land produce what it had done " It was not one year or two years' gleam of prosperity that would return 4 ; o their pockets the money which they had laid out . Of course he could form no idea as to what course the Government would pursue , but he imagined that everything that could be done would be done for the benefit of the agricultural interest . Every man who looked at all to the present state of parties in the House of Commons must know very well that if Lord Derby ' s Go .
vernment could do nothing , and if the administration of affairs fell into the hands of any one else , they would only have to expect that a more ruinous policy than the present if that were possible , would be followed towards them ! ( Loud cheers . ) It would therefore be his constant anxiety to keep the present Government in office , so long as he believed it would be friendly to the agricultural interests . ( Cheers . ) For his own part , he had clung to those interests in good report and in evil report . When he went to his eonin 1831 whih the first time that
stituency , ^ was Protection was used as a party cry , he was convinced of its necessity . He could not see why , because there was a failure in the potato crop in Ireland in 1845—and that was the only reason that had ever been put forward as an excuse for the change of opinion—Protection should now be called dead and gone . ( Cheers . ) They had been cried down by the newspapers for no other reason that he could make out , than that the fivepences of the consumers were more numerous than the fivepences of the producers . ( Cheers . )"
Attempts had been made to create disunion ; and an appeal which he made to the tenant farmers to stand up manfully with the landowners against the common foe , was loudly cheered . But when he asserted that the burdens on land were as oppressive to the owner as to the occupier , there were decided shouts of " No ! No ! " renewed when he renewed his assertion ; finally , he ate the leek , and affirmed that he could prove that " the loss on both sides had heen very great . " He
would not recriminate uoon the tenant farmers , —that was the part of an enemy . " Now they would perhaps ask him what could he dono for them ? He was still of opinion , that as long as justice was justice , they had a right to fair play ; but still he thought that if Protection could not be restored , there was one tning that would benefit many ge » tlemen in that room —namely , the removal of the county rates and those other burdens from the land , and throw them upon the pockets of the entire community . " ( Loud cheers . ) He wound up by asking how the tenant farmer science this
would be benefited by the progress of m country ? Manufacturers of agricultural imp lements were actually sending them out of the country , and it was clear that " British farmers would not be able to monopolize all the improvements to themselves . The " Health of the Marquis of Granby was proposed . The Marquis concurred with the sentiment uttered by Mr . Packe , " that he would maintain the principles of Protection as long as he had breath in Ins body . " ,. „ , u "At tho present time , however , it was a very di mem matter to speak upon that or upon any other P <> ^ f a jeet , because , if he might use the «* P « ^ J ' yn / rroat scarcity of the raw material . < V , ? Wrnmont , hu *; ,, u 1 « < i >; : JTiJ .,. niinim of her MaicHty ' s Goyornmoin ,
was perfectly and completely in tho dark . Jle "m . whether they intended to propose Borno Blight cluiy y spring com , or upon other articles that could no W the food of the people . Ho knew not wheth er fhcjr * to relieve them from their burdens , « r , wh ° tV , vvlu'tbor to repeal the malt-tax . ( Cheem . ) 11 « }™; "L » pOr they wo ™ going to reduce the interest « l «"' CentN .-hoTmew not what coumo tbey moant to p ^ < j ( , J * ut of this ho wuh perfectly conhdont-- mu (¦ J >> () f „„ , would do all in their power to advance t : - ""' 0 , MCr class agriculturists , nnd not only of them , but , every in tho country . " ( Loud cheers . ) j n ft But , MiniBtern , they must remember , w « ' strange pewit / ion ; they hud been forced into \* ^ maturely ; their friend * were nputheiK ' ., ai > )|() maturely ; their friend * were npuu .. ^» , » - ] m ( ,, „ li
^ were not apathetic were , ho was uiruijl «> Vm hud heard Unit evening , wanting in < ^ « ,, rn , nupporteach other . He trusted , however , t **¦ t tIlll oecupiorH , nnd labourers" would mute «» » t ; a , . doing of injuHt / . ee , and to hco to the doing j "He board it flftid on all Hides that 11 , ^ ^ J |) Ul , l pnmpcrouH that prices were riwng * "ft aniv « ' ^ ' I' ! "' / J poor-mu * wre ( le .-reuHing , iu « l a »> « > u ^ . ^ tlllt pority roign . d mnongnt uh . ^ o wan bapi'V * ( ll ( , ug ht to a rorUin extent , that wan the .-am ,. ' ^ ^ „ ,-that bUIohum ,. ! woro bound to ako » H "" £ , tho '""'^ tondod viow of tho position ol tho eour ^ ' h Ui « io ^ roturna from week to week , or ov «« ij ^ , m , ct « , < BtatoHinon ought l « look to cauaeH , and no * ^ oi thoy ought to diaorimiimto between what ia
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- ^ 1030 THE L E AJD E R . [ Saturday , - " ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦— "¦ ' - ¦ ' ¦¦¦ - ¦—— ...- ¦ ., ¦¦«¦ - —_—_—L ^ jaifc ^^ L yi —_ ul * m—fa— i — ^_—^_ M . ^_ ____ ¦ ¦ — .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 30, 1852, page 1030, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1958/page/2/
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